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8.24.2012

Yesterday, The Doc File rolled over 50,000 page views. That seems like a nice thing, but since the statistics aren’t all that reliable, it’s hard to take much meaning from it:

The Doc File has existed since the summer of 2006, and these statistics only go back to May 2008.

Google Stats are not considered to be incredibly accurate.

Of the 50,000 page views, roughly 30,000 of them have come this year alone.

Google reports no stats to me from September 2008-August 2009 or September 2010-August 2011, so in addition to the nearly two years at the beginning of The Doc File’s run where I have no stats, there are two additional years in the middle where I have no stats.

So, if all of this is largely meaningless, why even mention it? It’s a good question, and I guess the only answer is that I’m one of those guys who gets excited by milestone numbers on the odometer of my car.

You're definitely right—huge spike in views since I started posting on Facebook.

I wish my stats went back further so I could have better comparisons between my posts from back in the day to now. Unfortunately, I only have about 1.5-2 years of data from before this year, and almost no data from back in 2007 and 2008 when I posted a lot.